Component 2 Section B - Documentary
Component 2 - Documentary Section B Documentary Modes of documentary Filmmakers’ theories Case study Amy (Kapadia: 2016) Documentary as a genre Documentary as a style of filmmaking endeavours to document rather than fictionalise Documentary is enmeshed with ideas of representation and the ‘real’ Reality and Realism to create the idea of ‘the real’ (art - Realism vs Impressionism) Re-presentation What is presented on the screen is never ‘a window on reality’ or a transparent reflection of reality Reality on the screen is mediated by the production precesses: camera techniques, editing, lighting, locations All the above are choices These choices come with conscious and unconscious bias Bill Nichols Modes of documentary Observatory Participatory Poetic Expository Reflexive Performative Observational Emerges in the 1960s with the rise of new production technology Notion of the hidden camera and camera person - aided by lighter and more po...